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my husband got the violin in 1965 or so and he got it from a violin shop in washington d.c now before i met him he had seen this violin in that same shop and wanted to buy it but he couldn't afford it at the time and then in the meantime we got married and things got a little better he went to get it and it was gone it had been sold and of course he was really heartbroken about that but as years went on about maybe five years later he got a call from the shop and said that violin is back he bought it it was very proud on her was he a professional player yes he was violinist all his life and teacher this violin bears its original label nicholas lupo aparri 1798 and lupo was probably the most famous of all french violin makers we refer to him as the stradivari of france moved to paris i think in 1798 after working in orleans not far from paris and this is a very nice copy of a golden period strider valerie violin it is an example that i needed to spend quite a lot of time with when i first looked at it trying to decide if it was right lupo is a difficult maker because everybody in france in the 19th century is trying to copy and of course they're using in fact so many labels inside which look pretty good this label looks like a correct label to me and it has several characteristics that i attribute to lupo one is this scribe line that as a maker he used to scribe the center line of the instrument but he didn't remove most makers remove it when they finish the head and generally i find lupo doesn't remove it so that's one thing that felt good for me the other was the purfling is this sandwich of three strips of wood it's a decorative strip around the perimeter of the top and the back of the violin and i noticed that the dark part of the the outside lines is whale bone and whale bone is a characteristic perfect material used by lupo this type of varnish this very dark vibrant brownish red color is typical for lupo the back and sides are very very select maple people call it tiger stripe we just call it curly maple or highly figured maple sides also maple and the front spruce this one has a few condition issues which i'll point out mainly this crack goes all the way up and then you've got these round patches one here and one here and that doesn't help the value you told me in the 1990s you'd had an appraisal of about how much a hundred thousand a hundred thousand dollars i think probably a retail value for this violence should be about 140 thousand dollars but it perhaps would have been worth closer to two hundred thousand dollars if it didn't have the where and these condition issues especially any crack in the back the values of island by quite a lot the bow you've also had appraised and i notice written on the side seven thousand dollars i think there's a very fine french violin bow of the second half of the 19th century of the school of dominic piccad but not by dominic piccott one of the workers working in his style probably valued more in the range with twenty thousand dollars so seven thousand was a little cheap wow that's good thanks for bringing it here very much well that's terrific to hear makes my day

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